I know a lot of you believe that most people in the news business are liberal. Let me tell you, I know a lot of them, and they were almost evenly divided this time. Half of them liked Senator Kerry; the other half hated President Bush.

A cat's idea of a 'good time' is to kill something.

The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort - the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a door can be a sad and final thing - the opening a wonderfully joyous moment.

The biggest seller is cookbooks and the second is diet books - how not to eat what you've just learned how to cook.

I don't pick subjects as much as they pick me.

I am not retiring. Writers don't retire. Writers never stop writing.

When those waiters ask me if I want some fresh ground pepper, I ask if they have any aged pepper.